Use the DC component of the baseband-mixed IQ (before LPF/decimation) as a narrow-band carrier power estimate. This correlates with the spectrum FFT peak instead of measuring wideband channel power which inflates the reading for WFM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Add a new "Sig Strength" display field in the freq row that shows
the measured signal strength. Clicking the field cycles through
three units: dBFS (default), dBf, and dBm. The selected unit is
persisted in localStorage.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01EvRV8UgsVtbrcH4t2hmFBF
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Gardner TED (Tech 11) caused PI instability and worse weak-signal
pickup due to three issues:
1. Loop gains too aggressive: noise×noise error products at low SNR
injected sub-chip jitter that degraded OSD soft confidence and PI
LLR accumulation. Reduced Kp from 4e-4→1.5e-4, Ki from 8e-8→2e-8
(loop BW 0.11→0.053 Hz).
2. TED active during acquisition: before any group is decoded, the
error signal is unreliable. Now lock-gated (score >= 1) so the
TED only engages after the first successful group decode, when
timing is already close. During acquisition, the 8-candidate
architecture with fixed clocks provides adequate timing coverage.
3. Slow power estimate convergence: ted_power_est took ~420 ms to
settle (0.999 alpha), causing the TED to over-steer during startup.
Now uses 0.995 alpha (~84 ms convergence).
Additionally, when TED is gated off, the integrator decays toward zero
so stale corrections from a previous strong-signal period don't persist.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01KcVUcQQXrFyFA9NEjLhr9J
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
ACI: the hard limiter in channel.rs normalised IQ samples to unit
magnitude *before* the CMA equalizer, making the signal perfectly
constant-modulus so the CMA never adapted and tap deviation stayed
at zero. Fix by moving the hard limiter inside process_iq (after
the CMA) and replacing the CMA-based metric with IQ envelope
coefficient of variation, computed on the raw samples.
CCI: the pilot coherence has a theoretical maximum of π/4 ≈ 0.785
(not 1.0), so coherence_penalty was always ~0.215 even for a clean
signal. The Q/I ratio also depended on the arbitrary NCO-pilot
phase offset rather than actual interference. Fix by normalising
coherence by its theoretical max and dropping the phase-dependent
Q/I ratio. Gate CCI on pilot detection so mono signals read 0%.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01PUXWNMRGfrWYH56k2DLmen
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
After completing a group (Block D), the decoder dropped lock and
reverted to search mode which only uses hard CRC. On weak signals,
Block A frequently has bit errors that OSD could correct but hard
decode cannot, causing the decoder to freeze after 2-3 successful
groups. Stay locked with ExpectBlock::A so the next Block A benefits
from OSD soft decoding.
https://claude.ai/code/session_015Ds9dxpeyFimYHySBuzbFw
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Estimate Co-Channel Interference (CCI) from pilot tone quadrature
leakage and coherence degradation. Estimate Adjacent Channel
Interference (ACI) from CMA equalizer tap deviation from identity.
Both metrics (0-100 scale) are surfaced through RigFilterState and
displayed as colour-coded bars in the WFM control panel.
The RDS decoder quality parameter is now adaptively penalised when
CCI/ACI levels are elevated, reducing block-error rate under
interference conditions.
https://claude.ai/code/session_016EKzep42RCvE4GxvvRaCwu
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
If the incumbent candidate has not produced a state update in 2 seconds,
clear its score advantage so any candidate can take over. This prevents
the decoder from "freezing" on stale data when the incumbent's timing or
carrier tracking degrades — particularly important for dynamic PS where
the station rotates program service text.
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
https://claude.ai/code/session_0136sPdLUpYgvskrzbi2Epkv
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix Gardner TED loop structure bug (type-3 → type-2 PLL) and tune
gains for ζ=0.707 damping. Add adaptive Costas loop bandwidth that
narrows from ~22 Hz to ~5.5 Hz once carrier is locked, reducing phase
noise at low SNR. Narrow RRC matched filter (α=0.30, span=10 chips)
for ~0.6 dB noise BW gain. Add OSD(4) for locked-mode blocks after
first successful group, and increase PI accumulation threshold to 8.
TED bug details: the original code used `clock_inc += correction`
which added the full integrator value at every chip, creating an
extra integration (type-3 loop) that is unconditionally unstable.
Fixed to `clock_inc = nominal + correction` (standard type-2 PLL).
Gains retuned: Kp=4e-4, Ki=8e-8 for ζ≈0.707 and loop BW≈0.11 Hz.
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
https://claude.ai/code/session_0136sPdLUpYgvskrzbi2Epkv
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- RRC span 4→6 chips: better ISI rejection and pulse energy capture
- PI_ACC_THRESHOLD 3→5: more Block A votes before committing PI at weak signal
- OSD(3): add C(26,3)=2600 triple-bit search under same cost gate as OSD(2)
- Tech 11 Gardner TED: closed-loop symbol timing PI loop per Candidate;
replaces open-loop NCO with mid-chip capture, power-normalised error signal,
anti-windup integrator, and ±1% pull-in range (±23.75 Hz at 2375 chips/s)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
The Auto button now toggles between Off and Auto states. Default is Off.
First click sets squelch to noise floor + 6 dB; second click resets to
Open (0%). Button shows active state with green highlight when engaged.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TDQyrZiPKfWGATVWPsLmHT
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an "Auto" button next to the SQL slider that sets the squelch
threshold to the current noise floor (estimated from spectrum bins)
plus a 6 dB margin. Uses the existing estimateNoiseFloorDb() heuristic.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TDQyrZiPKfWGATVWPsLmHT
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add OSD_MAX_FLIP_COST (0.45) to reject OSD corrections where the flipped
bits had high confidence — a strong false-decode indicator. Genuine errors
at 9-10 dB SNR have cost ≲0.3; noise matches cost 0.6-1.2.
Add PI consistency gate in process_group: reject groups whose Block A PI
differs from the candidate's established PI, preventing noise from
polluting accumulated PS/RT/PTYN text fields.
Raise PI_ACC_THRESHOLD from 2 to 3 for stronger PI voting.
Extend noise rejection test from 0.5s to 2s. Add 9 dB SNR sensitivity
test (all 16 tests pass).
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GYax4BQ9ZV9ZZfMjmmzgbh
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The WSPR decoder was producing many false positive decodes due to
several overly permissive thresholds that allowed noise to reach the
Fano sequential decoder, which could then converge on random data:
- Raise normalized sync score threshold from 0.10 to 0.20 to reject
noise candidates before attempting expensive Fano decoding
- Add minimum SNR gate (-20 dB) to skip candidates where the signal
is indistinguishable from noise
- Return and check the Fano decoder's cumulative path metric, rejecting
low-confidence decodes (metric < 20) that are likely noise artifacts
- Raise RMS threshold from 0.0005 to 0.005 to reject near-silent audio
- Add near-frequency deduplication to prevent the same signal decoded
at slightly different (freq, dt) offsets from appearing multiple times
- Add noise-only regression test to verify no false positives on random
input
https://claude.ai/code/session_01HTBoEsD1hp99TiYMSaHMVG
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The `chips_to_rds_signal` test helper was generating rectangular chip
pulses, but the receiver expects RRC-shaped transmit pulses so that
RRC(tx) × RRC(rx) = raised cosine with zero ISI. The rectangular
pulses caused ISI that drifted the symbol clock sampling point,
consistently skipping PS segment 2 in the end-to-end test.
Replace rectangular pulses with an impulse train convolved with the
same RRC taps used by the receiver. All 15 tests now pass including
`end_to_end_clean_signal_decodes_ps`.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2UcGaLDzYiM3gNrZ6kFBj
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- RRC_ALPHA 0.75→0.50: narrower noise BW, ~0.6 dB SNR gain
- COSTAS_KI 3.5e-7: maintain ζ≈0.68 (1e-6 caused loop instability)
- Soft confidence: use biphase_i.abs() instead of full vector magnitude
so OSD confidence is aligned with bit-decision sign; suppresses
false groups under noise with residual Costas phase error
- OSD(2) in locked mode: corrects ≤2-bit errors after block sync
- Search mode: hard decode only for Block A; OSD(1) in search yielded
~13% false Block A rate per bit, letting wrong clock candidates
accumulate false groups as fast as the correct candidate
- Incumbent candidate tracking (best_candidate_idx): the winning
candidate updates best_state at equal score; challengers need strictly
higher score; best_score tracks incumbent even on no-state-change
groups so challengers can't leapfrog on a single false group
- blocks_to_chips: add NRZI (NRZ-Mark) pre-encoding so the differential
biphase decoder recovers actual data bits rather than XOR-of-pairs
- Add blocks_to_chips_round_trips_all_groups test: verifies all 16 blocks
across 4 PS segments round-trip correctly without BPSK modulation
[fix](trx-backend-soapysdr): lower pilot lock threshold for weak-signal RDS
- PILOT_LOCK_THRESHOLD 0.25→0.20, add PILOT_LOCK_ONSET=0.30 constant
- Pilot reference engages at coherence ≥0.36 (was ≥0.45)
WIP: end_to_end_clean_signal_decodes_ps still failing (13/15 pass).
Decoder skips segment 2 due to ISI from rectangular test chips through
RRC receive filter. chips_to_rds_signal needs RRC pulse shaping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Lower PILOT_LOCK_THRESHOLD 0.5 -> 0.25 so the accurate 57 kHz pilot-derived
carrier reference is handed to the RDS decoder even with a weaker pilot tone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
- Add single-bit flip fallback in search mode (push_bit_soft) so Block A
can be acquired with one bit error, matching locked-mode OSD(1) behaviour
- Lower MIN_PUBLISH_QUALITY 0.38 -> 0.20 for earlier publish on noisy signals
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
- Replace FirFilter (ring-buffer FIR) with FftRrcFilter using overlap-save
FFT convolution; I and Q are processed together as a single complex FFT,
halving filter cost (~10x fewer operations than direct convolution)
- Reduce PHASE_CANDIDATES 16 -> 8 (reasonable, double the original)
- Lower MIN_PUBLISH_QUALITY 0.55 -> 0.38 (more permissive acquisition)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
The IQ prefilter cutoff was audio_bandwidth_hz/2, so any setting below
~120 kHz would cut off the 57 kHz RDS subcarrier before FM demod.
- Clamp IQ prefilter cutoff to >= 60 kHz for WFM in both new() and
rebuild_filters() — audio quality is unaffected since WfmStereoDecoder
applies its own 18 kHz lowpass internally
- Ensure pipeline target rate >= 120 kHz for WFM so the decimated IQ
sample rate can represent the 60 kHz cutoff
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
- Downgrade OSD from distance-2 to distance-1 (removes 325-iteration
double-bit flip loop per block, main source of both false positives
and excess CPU)
- Reduce phase candidates from 8 to 4 (halves per-sample work)
- Raise MIN_PUBLISH_QUALITY from 0.45 to 0.65 (requires stronger
signal confidence before emitting decoded state)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Track per-rig server connection state in `rig_server_connected` so that when
one trx-server drops, only the rig(s) it serves are marked disconnected. Other
rigs with active connections remain fully interactive. The SSE `server_connected`
field is now resolved from the per-rig map for the session's active rig, falling
back to the global flag for backward compatibility.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Tech 1: replace one-pole baseband LPF with FIR RRC matched filter
(alpha=0.75, 4-chip span) — largest single measured improvement per
empirical comparison (gr-rds RRC vs plain FIR: 32/38 vs 18/38 stations).
Tech 2: 19 kHz pilot x3 -> 57 kHz coherent carrier reference via the
triple-angle formula; fed from the WFM pilot Costas PLL when
pilot_lock_level > 0.5, clearing to NCO fallback otherwise.
Tech 3/7/8: OSD(2) soft-decision block decoder replaces hard CRC check.
Per-bit soft magnitudes accumulated in Candidate::block_soft[26].
decode_block_soft() searches Hamming distance 0/1/2 (352 trials total)
and returns the minimum Euclidean-cost valid codeword; ~2-3 dB gain.
Tech 4: 8th-order 57 kHz BPF (4 cascaded biquads at Q=5) in wfm.rs
replaces the previous single Q=10 biquad; ~6x steeper ACI stopband.
Tech 5: Costas loop with tanh soft phase detector drives the RDS carrier
NCO when no pilot reference is available (P+I, B_L ~20 Hz).
Tech 6: Block A PI field LLR accumulation — signed per-bit LLR summed
over 3 independent Block A observations before committing the PI value,
correcting weak-signal false locks without delaying strong-signal lock.
Tech 9: 8-tap complex CMA blind equalizer applied to IQ samples before
FM discrimination; constant-modulus error (|y|^2 - R^2) drives tap
adaptation without a training sequence, suppressing adjacent-channel
interference at the source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Use saturating CAS loop in adjust_total_count to prevent AtomicUsize underflow, and cap history estimate at 500k entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Remove overkill peak frequency labels from spectrum view. Set waterfall
height to match spectrum height (1:1 split) instead of fixed 120px.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Add 8 enhancements to the spectrum display:
1. Noise floor reference line — dashed horizontal line at estimated
noise floor (15th-percentile heuristic)
2. Peak frequency labels — top 5 strongest peaks labeled with
frequency text on the spectrum canvas
3. Crosshair lines — vertical + horizontal guide lines follow
cursor on hover for precise frequency/dB reading
4. Zoom indicator + minimap — shows current zoom level (e.g. "4.0x")
and a minimap showing the visible window within the full span
5. dB range control — new Range input alongside Floor, with Auto
button updating both; allows direct control of vertical span
6. Keyboard shortcuts — Arrow Left/Right to pan, +/- to zoom,
0 to reset zoom; documented in hint bar
7. Full waterfall panel — WebGL waterfall canvas below the spectrum
plot, synchronized with zoom/pan, with scroll/click/drag support
8. Signal overlay extended — overlay height now includes waterfall
canvas for consistent BW/bookmark/freq marker coverage
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Add 8 enhancements to the spectrum display:
1. Noise floor reference line — dashed horizontal line at estimated
noise floor (15th-percentile heuristic)
2. Peak frequency labels — top 5 strongest peaks labeled with
frequency text on the spectrum canvas
3. Crosshair lines — vertical + horizontal guide lines follow
cursor on hover for precise frequency/dB reading
4. Zoom indicator + minimap — shows current zoom level (e.g. "4.0x")
and a minimap showing the visible window within the full span
5. dB range control — new Range input alongside Floor, with Auto
button updating both; allows direct control of vertical span
6. Keyboard shortcuts — Arrow Left/Right to pan, +/- to zoom,
0 to reset zoom; documented in hint bar
7. Full waterfall panel — WebGL waterfall canvas below the spectrum
plot, synchronized with zoom/pan, with scroll/click/drag support
8. Signal overlay extended — overlay height now includes waterfall
canvas for consistent BW/bookmark/freq marker coverage
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
Nudge state watch when server_connected goes false so SSE delivers the change. Frontend applies a desaturated frost + banner instead of a blocking overlay, keeping the last-known state visible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
The map module was tagging all decode markers (APRS, AIS, VDES,
FT8/FT4/FT2/WSPR locators) with the global rig picker's active rig
instead of the actual source rig. This made the map's own rig filter
dropdown ineffective in multi-rig setups.
- Add rig_id field to all decode message structs (AisMessage,
VdesMessage, AprsPacket, CwEvent, Ft8Message, WsprMessage)
- Set rig_id on messages in audio_client before broadcasting, using
the actual rig connection identifier
- Update history collector to prefer message rig_id over the global
active rig fallback
- Pass rig_id through plugin normalize functions (AIS, APRS, VDES,
HF-APRS) so it reaches the map add functions
- Update all map marker functions (aprsMapAddStation, aisMapAddVessel,
vdesMapAddPoint, mapAddLocator) to use the message's rig_id with
fallback to the global picker for backward compatibility
https://claude.ai/code/session_015gC7axHk2jmp7HbFPdbivN
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the plugin loading infrastructure (libloading-based dynamic .so/.dylib/.dll
loading) from both trx-server and trx-client. The feature was unused and posed an
unnecessary security risk by executing arbitrary native code from disk.
Removed:
- src/trx-app/src/plugins.rs (plugin discovery, validation, FFI registration)
- examples/trx-plugin-example/ (cdylib example plugin)
- libloading dependency from trx-app
- load_backend_plugins / load_frontend_plugins calls from server and client
- Plugin documentation from README.md and CLAUDE.md
https://claude.ai/code/session_01DTEUpz3XPUeWmz74NeaFgb
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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